Recent content by nathsods

Nearly 4 Passes of memtest with no errors, the stuttering happens in all games. I have tested Crysis, CoD4, and Bioshock.

I just put together a new system installed all the latest drivers and proceeded to test 3DMark06, scored about 9300. Then i tested Crysis, all was running smoothly as should then i noticed an occasional stutter, the fps would drop below 10fps and the game would basically freeze for a second or...

For north and southbridge temps, most people just stick their finger on top of the heatsink. If it is warm to the touch and u can keep it on there, then good! SAFE temps. Safe temps for northbridge are apparently up to 65-70 degrees celcius although thats quite warm.

I have been using an Everglide Titan monster mat for over a year, awesome cloth pad still in great condition, have just moved over to a Steelpad Qck Heavy which is slightly larger and thicker padding. Both of these pads have thicker padding than standard qck which are quite thin and less...

Thanks for the reply i'll look at A8N-SLI, if it overclocks just as well & supports 20pin psus better than the DFI. If we have instability problems i'll go straight to the psu & do an upgrade.

I am helping a friend build a pc purely for gaming, we plan to overclock the system & gfx card. This is what i had in mind atm. He is using his old crt, case & IDE hdd. 3200+ Venice socket 939 $209.00 DFI Lanparty UT nF4 Ultra D $205.00 XpertVision GF 7600GT 256MB 128-bit DDR3 PCI-E...